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Hundreds of cyclists finish up the Ride of Silence on First Street in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride commemorates those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes.
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Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Hundreds of cyclists participated in the Ride of Silence in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured in bicycle crashes on public roadways.
Andrew West/news-press.com

Ray Vega reads a poem along with other cyclists before the Ride of Silence in Fort Myers on Wednesday 5/21/2014. The ride honors those that have been killed or injured while riding. Vega is wearing the red arm band because he was was injured after being hit by a vehicle and thrown from his bike.(Photo: Andrew West/The News-Press Andrew West/ The News-Press)Buy Photo

Nearly 200 cyclists rode through downtown Fort Myers in a silent procession Wednesday night to memorialize and honor cyclists who have been injured or killed while riding.

There have been five cyclist fatalities in Lee County so far in 2014. The annual event began in Dallas in 2003 after a rider was struck and killed by the mirror of a passing vehicle. There are now more than 300 rides across the world. Rides also took place in Sanibel and Naples.

Mike Resnick, of the Caloosa Riders Bicycle Club, organized the Fort Myers ride with help from group members. Resnick hoped awareness that cyclists have legal rights to the use of the roadways would spread. He looked out at the group that started and ended near Centennial Park in Fort Myers.

"By just taking the power of this group here, it can multiply," he said.